Dell Open Manage on a HP DL 385

Hello All

We are just about to replace our Dell Servers with HP DL and BL's and we simply cannot dump all of our Market facing Dell servers with HP overnight and as you'll know this is going to take time and effort and the migration is going to be in stages.

My question to the group today is can we install either Dell Open Manage application or some form of a plugin from Dell on a HP DL385 server as part of HP SIM Manager.

Has anyone tried simply trying to install Dell Open Manage on a HP Server, we just would like to continue monitor our existing Dell Servers using the HP DL385 with the HP SIM software, or can we have SIM and Dell Open Manage running at the same time with of course different port numbers.

Re: Dell Open Manage on a HP DL 385

SIM can do basic monitoring of your Dell systems, so you could have just one management console. I'm not exactly sure if it will do auto-discovery on the Dell servers or if you have to compile the Dell server MIBs into SIM.

You might get some more info in these docs (look for "non-HP" to see about compiling MIBs), or you could just install SIM and see what happens.

Re: Dell Open Manage on a HP DL 385

Your best move would be to use HP SIM to manage all of your servers as Doug suggests. Dell has actually written a white paper on how to do this. Do a search for 'Systems Insight Manager' on the Dell website.